My Scheming Childhood Friend Drops the Act After We Marry

[The full novel costs only 9 yuan. Writing is hard, and the author is nearly unable to afford food because of piracy. Please support the official version. The marriage plot begins in Chapter 27, so feel free to skip ahead if you don't want to read the earlier chapters.] Ning Chenhuan suspected he had offended the God of Matchmaking and been cursed. A spirit medium told him that if he didn't marry someone whose birth charts matched his before turning twenty-three, he would be plagued by bad luck for the rest of his life. To break the curse, he entered into a marriage of convenience with his childhood friend, Fu Tingyun. Fu Tingyun was upright, courteous, and a true gentleman. Most importantly, he was straight, so marrying him carried absolutely no risk. Ning Chenhuan was very pleased. But before long, he realized that a sham marriage alone wouldn't break the curse. It had to be a real marriage. So, one month after the wedding, he fulfilled his marital duties with his husband for the first time. The next day, Ning Chenhuan's eyes were still swollen. He dutifully lived as a real married couple with the man for several months, and at last the curse was lifted. Overjoyed, Ning Chenhuan brought up divorce, but the man caught him by the ankle, his voice satisfied. "Huanhuan, did you forget? We never signed any agreement." Ning Chenhuan panicked. "Aren't you straight?" Fu Tingyun sighed tenderly. "Huanhuan, no straight man would feel desire for another man." It felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over Ning Chenhuan's head. The man before him had never been a gentleman. He was a wolf in gentleman's clothing. He packed his things and ran away in the middle of the night. Before long, the man who had laid a vast net to catch him brought him back. The man bit his ear. "My little butterfly is always so disobedient. Maybe I should break his wings so he won't fly away from my arms again." Gazing into those dark, deep eyes, Ning Chenhuan despairingly realized that his gentle childhood friend seemed to have gone completely dark. * Fu Tingyun had a beautiful, adorable childhood friend who fluttered around him all day like a clingy little butterfly. He loved the little butterfly. He had loved him since they were children, but he couldn't say it. Because for years, he had watched the little butterfly flit among flowers, never willing to settle for any of them. He knew the little butterfly could have a friend forever, but never a lover forever. Until one day, the little butterfly landed on his fingertips and coquettishly pleaded with him as he had when they were children. "Brother Yun, do me a favor. Will you marry me?" Fu Tingyun agreed without showing a flicker of emotion. But inside, he thought: This time, I won't let my little butterfly fly away. [Shou: A playboy on the surface, but actually a pure-hearted, universally adored beauty x Gong: A gentleman at first, then a mad, dark-hearted man who hides his true nature] Note: 1. Sweet and sour romance, with a touch of melodrama. Later on, expect the shou's romantic misadventures to catch up with him, a lofty beauty turning dark, a runaway-and-pursuit plot where escape is impossible, and other classic melodramatic tropes. 2. The shou has a universally adored quality. Everyone loves him, but the only person he truly loves is the gong. 3. 1v1, both are each other's first, happy ending. 4. This is set entirely in a modern world. Nothing can become a spirit, so there are no gods or supernatural elements. There will be some melodramatic coincidences for dramatic effect, but the so-called "curse" is mainly a combination of Murphy's law, self-suggestion, and coincidences. * * * * * * * * * [The next novel is a melodramatic love-triangle story, "The Pretty Fool Is Always Targeted by the Ominous Villain." Please add it to your reading list!] Shen Xijun was a peach blossom spirit who was struck by heavenly lightning and sent into a quick-transmigration world while undergoing his tribulation. System: "Your mission is to kill the evil villain in every world." Shen Xijun lifted his soft, delicate little face, pointed at himself in confusion, and asked timidly, "...Me?" System: "...Never mind. Go play." Shen Xijun: "...?" Since he was too weak, his mission changed from killing the great villain to becoming a minor cannon fodder character who nobly sacrifices himself to help the protagonist kill the great villain. But Shen Xijun never expected that he would survive every deadly plot point, while the protagonist and the villain both looked at him in increasingly strange ways. [Cthulhu World] He transmigrated into the only "messenger" able to connect three-dimensional and four-dimensional space, sent as bait to lure an ancient evil god into a human trap. Instead, the indescribably powerful evil god wrapped cold tentacles around his upper thigh and whispered into his ear, "Humanity should be grateful they offered you to me, my mate. This spared them extinction." Meanwhile, the general who had offered him as bait eventually knelt before the closed portal, abandoning his faith and dignity to beg the evil god to release him, even if it meant sacrificing all of humanity. [Xianxia World] He transmigrated into the righteous Immortal Venerable's little disciple and was sent to poison the evil Demon Lord's wine. Instead, the Demon Lord calmly drank the poisoned wine, then leisurely grabbed him by the ankle and dragged him back to bed. "You fool, what you put in my wine wasn't poison. It was an aphrodisiac." Meanwhile, his aloof master, a paragon of virtue, eventually fought his way through the Demon Realm, drenched in blood, eyes red. "Return my little disciple to me." [Vampire World] He transmigrated into a holy son whose blood had a distinctive fragrance and went to stab the vampire progenitor through the heart with a silver dagger. Instead, the millennium-old vampire rubbed his sharp fangs against Shen Xijun's delicate neck and said seductively, "Let me bite you and mark you, and I'll spare the werewolf who sent you here." Meanwhile, the werewolf brother who had raised him and planned to sacrifice his life for the pack eventually cut out his own heart, just to beg for Shen Xijun's forgiveness. [ABO World] He transmigrated into an omega with naturally alluring pheromones and went to seduce and assassinate the villainous alpha. Instead, the alpha locked him inside a villa and stroked his belly, eyes dark. "I'll let you out when you're pregnant." Meanwhile, the man who had first assigned him the mission sneaked into the heavily guarded villa and touched his slightly swollen belly. "Baby, get rid of it and carry mine instead, okay?" [Supernatural World] He transmigrated into a little Taoist priest with yin-yang eyes and went to stick a yellow talisman on an evil ghost's forehead. Instead, the ghost deftly caught the talisman and pressed it to his own forehead. Its cold hand stroked the back of Shen Xijun's neck as it said ominously, "You've been pretending not to see me all this time just for this?" Meanwhile, the head of the family who had raised him for eighteen years solely to claim his special constitution eventually searched the world tirelessly for Taoist priests, desperate to find the soul the evil ghost had stolen from him. Other worlds to be determined: [Post-apocalyptic Zombie King] [Miaojiang Black Wizard] Shen Xijun: "...Something feels off. Why are both the villains and the protagonists lusting after my body?" [Shou: An innocent, silly, soft and sweet beauty x Gong: Various dark, obsessive, possessive, crazy yandere types] Note: 1. The villain is the gong, while the righteous protagonist is a scum gong (the scum gong is not one of the gong's incarnations). The scum gong will get his comeuppance, but the shou will only end up with the true gong. 2. The villain will dote on his wife very, very much. 3. The gong's incarnations are the villains in each world. Theme: Always have the courage to face difficulties